Diagrama de temas
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In Module 1 INTRODUCTION: Context and Historical Perspective, the learner will acquire general geopolitical knowledge that is linked to the construction of borders. First of all, the slowing down of the current population is seen as an aspect linked to colonialism on a transnational level. Subsequently, we will focus on the bilateral relationship between Spain and Morocco, on those tensions in relation to the territories that also from a colonial period mark today the events around the land border of Spain and the European Union with Africanícele, through the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Finally, we will focus on the routes from Africa to Italy, observed from a vision that defends human mobility.
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In module 2 INSULARIZATION: Construction of space-borders, “Hot Spots”, we will analyse how different centres have been set up in southern European countries in order to deprive migrants arriving on their shores of freedom of movement.
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In module 3 CIRCULARITY: Externalization of the border and deportation agreements we show how the border is constructed in a circular way, through practices that are not only limited to the construction of fences in border areas of Europe, but also through the externalization of a series of practices based on expulsion towards the south
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In module 4 WAITING: Detention centres, we will learn how borders are also made of time, of waiting, and of circular landscapes, this is manifested either in the creation of detention centers as well as in processes of expulsion.
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In module 5 INDUSTRY: Irregularity provides cheap labour, we analyze how the way of life of the global north produces a series of ecological, social and economic crises in the global south. In order to isolate the global north from these consequences, fortress capitalism is created (walls, unequal mobility, immigration laws, visas, etc.). The border functions as an institution of social discrimination to divide the unequal global distribution of wealth and poverty between different regions of the world.
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In module 6 MOTION IN PROGRESS: Migrant childhood, we want to get closer to the different border realities for migrant childhood on their way to Europe, understanding their motivations for traveling, what options they do or do not find on their way, in terms of protection of their rights as children, and how they are perceived by the societies they transit through.
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In module 7 NEW COMMONS Civil society initiatives, we will collect some of the everyday practices and actions that are encountered, shared and created collectively in border contexts. People with diverse backgrounds, routes, histories and identities - local and migrant - come together, discover new ways of communicating, connecting and sharing, thus creating "new communities". It is in the everyday (re)production of life, in the common actions and, above all, in the relationships that are created within these processes, that the creation of "the common" resides.
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In module 8 AUTONOMY. Initiatives of migrant collectives we understand migration as a social movement, that is, from an autonomous perspective where migrants are not victims of migration management policies, but people with agency. In this sense, the great entities of mobility control such as the nation-state or Fortress Europe are not assumed and unquestionable realities. And migrant practices, demands and desires exceed the 'objective' or 'sociological' criteria that try to explain human mobility flows. This 'excess' means that migration cannot be reduced to 'laws' of supply and demand or state policies (Mezzadra 2011).
The autonomy of migrations does not have individual migrants as a starting point, but the migratory movement as a social process and as a creative force within the structures of mobility control. Migrants' struggles emerge against these devices, and this is the perspective that we will address in this module through different examples in the three southern Mediterranean borders.
